A Dealmakers Fireside Chat
Michael Petras Jr. served as CEO of GE Lighting and Industrial; then was CEO of AssuraMed, where he led the sale of the company to Cardinal Health and stayed on as President & CEO of Cardinal Health’s Post-Acute Solutions segment. Today, he’s Chairman and CEO of Sotera Health. With capital raises, acquisitions, divestitures, and even an IPO in Michael’s past, he’s built a strong career in M&A. We will discuss leadership and M&A, including why he moved Sotera’s headquarters from Chicago to Cleveland, how he took the company public, and lessons learned from more than 25 years of high-end dealmaking.
Moderator:
Chief Content Officer
Smart Business
Dustin is an award-winning business journalist, bestselling author, and the chief content officer of Smart Business. Over the past 30 years, he has interviewed thousands of business and civic leaders, and helped more than 50 CEOs and entrepreneurs transform their ideas into books. A trained investigative politics reporter and former digital media entrepreneur, Dustin joined Smart Business in 1997 after serving as an editor at several daily newspapers.
Panelists:
CEO
Sotera Health
Michael has served as our Chief Executive Officer since June 2016, as the Chairman of our board since January 2019 and as a member of our board since June 2016. Prior to joining Sotera Health, Mr. Petras served as chief executive officer of Post-Acute Solutions at Cardinal Health, Inc., a multinational healthcare services company, from 2015 to 2016 and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health at-Home at Cardinal Health, Inc. from 2013 to 2015.
From 2011 to 2013, he was the chief executive officer for AssuraMed Holdings, Inc., a medical products supplier owned by the Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Goldman Sachs private equity firms, which was sold to Cardinal Health, Inc. in 2013. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Petras was president and chief executive officer at GE Lighting, a General Electric Company (“GE”) business unit. During his over 20 year career at GE, he held several management positions in multiple disciplines.